This is a personal blog where I will be writing about family, photography, cooking, gardening, living in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and growing older. And maybe anything else that happens to interest me. You've been warned...but feel free to read along.

Sunday, March 09, 2008

My Computer and Daylight Savings Time

My HP computer was made in Mexico, shipped to the USA where I bought it for less than I would have had to pay for it in Mexico. This doesn't make sense to me. How could the computer be made in Mexico, shipped to the USA and sold for less than it sells for in Mexico. But that is another story about NAFTA and globalization.

At any rate, this computer was returned to the land of its birth three years ago but it has not re-adjusted. This morning it sprang forward with the USA time change. For God's sake. It is a Mexican computer, it should be proudly waiting for Mexico's change to daylight savings time on April 6.

I'm going to gently correct the time but I'll have a long talk with it about its Mexican heritage.

6 comments:

How bizarre! MY computer was bought here in Mexico - has a Internet Explorer operating system and it DIDN'T spring forward........It's a "clone" and only cost me $200 when my expensive US one "crashed" and burned! I DON'T understand any of this.......

I have recently purchased H.P laptop and desktop computers; both from the U.S. When I set them up I selected, "(GMT-06:00) Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey" for a time zone. My computers did not change to daylight savings yesterday morning.